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In reply to the discussion: Pussy Riot Meets Hillary Clinton As Moscow Drops ‘Religious Hatred’ [View all]Beacool
(30,247 posts)They had been under a lot of criticism at the time because they had no women in the board of directors or in the upper management echelons.
Look at this pic, a bunch of white men, no diversity whatsoever in that photo. How much do you think that they listened to this young woman? They only met 4 times a year. How much influence could she have possibly had?
In 1986, Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, had a problem. He was under growing pressure from shareholders and his wife, Helen to appoint a woman to the companys 15-member board of directors.
So Mr. Walton turned to a young lawyer who just happened to be married to the governor of Arkansas, where Wal-Mart is based: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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In Mrs. Clintons complex relationship with Wal-Mart, there are echoes of the familiar themes that have defined much of her career: the trailblazing woman unafraid of challenging the men around her; the idealist pushing for complicated, at times expensive, reforms; and the political pragmatist, willing to accept policies she did not agree with to achieve her ends.
Did Hillary like all of Wal-Mart practices? No, said Garry Mauro, a longtime friend and supporter of the Clintons who sat on the Wal-Mart Environmental Advisory Board with Mrs. Clinton in the late 1980s and worked with her on George McGoverns 1972 presidential campaign.
But, Mr. Mauro added, was Wal-Mart a better company, with better practices, because Hillary was on the board? Yes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0